Board Thread:Pokémon Help/@comment-31398341-20171026040947/@comment-32358261-20180322094834

Just wondering, how is ash greninja at B only? With it’s incredible power (on par with mega evolution if not better in some cases) despite not having protean is still very great. Not sure if you could count it as a life orb variant or it’s own set but how about a waterium z set? I would say specs but waterium z can do. Use greninja to revenge kill, activate its ash form and snowball.

Personally how i use it is to kill with either z boosted hydro pump to activate the battle bond. Then just use it as a string sweeper. Water shuriken always hits 3 times at 20 base power each, equating to a 90 base power (including stab) move. Factoring in stab, prioirity and breaking through sturdy/sash or a sub(maybe) it can be pretty threatening. Perhaps not the smartest strategy but it works pretty well for me.

With U turn you could create a good volt turn core (without a tapu Koko though). U turn helps keep up momentum.

Maybe I’m a bit biased with the rank since it’s my second favourite mon but I think at least a B+ mon for sure. At most I would say A rank but since it doesn’t have all tools available (like many other Pokémon) maybe not quite there yet.